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Bigfoot was (probably not) caught again on video. A group of young people were recording absolutely nothing with an iPhone camera as they traversed the undergrowth near the Spokane River. According to the woman in the video, YouTube user samantha13950:

While hiking, we accidentally caught an image of bigfoot walking through the woods. I didn't even notice until I got home and saw it on the computer! This scarred [sic] the crap out of us!

While I commend the cinematographer for keeping Bigfoot out of center-frame, I'm going to request that the next sighting include some dialogue and/or a group of people talking directly to the camera as Sasquatch Himself walks by unnoticed over their shoulders.

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Manhattan as the sun goes down is re-imagined as a pinball machine.  It was created in After Effects and was directed by Lizzie Oxby.  It 'stars' John Taylor who also worked out the compositing details, set up the After Effects project and did the final grading. Perhaps this should be the first in a series of different world cities being given the same treatment.  It would be fun to see which place would win the game!

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I'm as sick of Charlie Sheen as anyone, but a New York City resident named Freddy Caldwell is maybe a little more annoyed than the rest of us. On May 11 and May 23, after WPIX-11 aired reruns of "Two and a Half Men," Caldwell called in bomb threats to the station, demanding that they not run any more of the syndicated sitcom episodes.

Much of the caller's motive remains unknown. Did he dislike seeing the show in general, or just headline-making Sheen? Were substances, such as alcohol (or tiger blood?), behind the threats?

Police (winning!) traced the calls to the man's home in the Bronx, and Caldwell was charged with "falsely reporting an incident and aggravated harassment."

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If you're in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia or Chile anytime soon, you can pick up a bottle of Duff, Homer Simpson's lager of choice. Though the product is probably in violation of licensing agreements--or more specifically, being produced without one--it's a hot seller in South American markets.

Fox has never licensed the beverage in the United States. According to several reports, Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening fears that bringing Duff into the real world would be tantamount to pushing alcohol on minors.

The Duff dearth north of the border has only made fans more desperate. Online message boards buzz about where to find Duff. On eBay, an empty bottle of Duff beer from Argentina sells for $14.99; a decal off the Colombian product is being offered for $8.99.

At Rock Garden, a bar in Bogotá, Duff commands import prices — about $5.50 a bottle — even though it’s brewed in the nearby city of Medellin.

Duff Sudamerica, the Chilean producer, expects to sell $750,000 worth of Duff beer this year, but personally I think they'll surpass that once Simpsons superfans get in on it.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/28/v-print/2240028/doh-homer-simpsons-favorite-brew.html | Image: Jim Wyss / Miami Herald Staff

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This is a neat idea: parking meters repurposed to collect change for the homeless. The program is now running in Orlando, FL, as well.

Donors drop coins into the meters, which are used only to collect contributions, not to regulate parking. City workers collect the change, which is given to the Central Florida Commission for Homelessness, a nonprofit group partly funded by the city.

The money will go to the commission's Ten2End initiative, which aims to end homelessness in Central Florida within the decade by helping people become self-sufficient.

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Our ideas about the Moon -- what it's made of and how it got there, and even how we can use its energy -- have changed rapidly over the last half-century. You know, since we started sending people there. The newest confirmed findings from lunar rocks reveals that our nearest neighbor is wetter then we thought.

Mind you, we’re not talking about potential geysers or subsurface lakes here; the amount of water we’re seeing here means you’d need to grind up a couple of cubic meters of this glass just to get enough water to drink with lunch. So what’s the big deal?

The big deal is that now we're even less certain how the Moon formed. The presence of water in subsurface lunar rocks messes with the Giant Impact Hypothesis, the leading theory on the topic to date. Read more at Bad Astronomy.

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It looks like a piece of Photoshop trickery, but that bit of fairlyand fungus is Entoloma hochstetteri, the Sky Blue Mushroom. In its native New Zealand the mushroom is well known, appearing on a postage stamp and on the back of the country's $50 note, but it is virtually unheard of outside the Land of the Long White Cloud. The Sky Blue Mushroom is probably poisonous, but no daring forager has offered to find out. There are more pictures and information on Kuriositas.

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Designer Lulin Ding has interesting ideas about makeup. She dreamt up this LED Eyeshadow contraption because she was "interested in the way women wear eyeshadow and how most of the time you can only see the details when their eyes are closed." The effect is admittedly kind of cool, but the apparatus looks painful, irritating and unsafe. Ding has a video of the LED Eyeshadow in action; click through to cringe as you watch her blink.

Link via Gizmodo | Image: Lulin Ding

In what seems a bit like a modernist reenactment of the Mad Hatter's tea party, the venerable Stephen Fry sat down with Lady Gaga for tea and an interview for FT Magazine. It's a weird pairing, no doubt, but how can anyone sitting next to a woman in a horned headdress not seem weird? Fry acknowledges this fact straightforwardly.

“Ho, ho,” I thought to myself. “Someone has had the idea that it would be amusing for the ‘quintessentially English’ Mr Fry to be seen ‘taking afternoon tea’ with a broad from the Bowery. Oh well, one plays these games and the scones did look rather delicious. I readied my iPhone for recording, sat on the sofa and consulted the notebook in which I had jotted down my questions.

Read the rest of the piece, which is just fascinating, on FT.com.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0cca76f0-873a-11e0-b983-00144feabdc0.htmll#axzz1NfBdHemA | Image: Shamil Tanna

Nature is always throwing weirdness at us, and today's helping comes in the form of a hermaphroditic goat--a breedable male that can be milked.

A visitor to a goat show in Brazil did not hesitate to buy a hermaphrodite goat - a male goat that can be milked - when he first came across it. The goat is a clearly a Billy goat. And, translating the colloquial phrase "pai de chiqueiro", implies that it can be mated with a female goat. But, as seen in the video, the scrotum region apparently serves a dual purpose of being a set of udders that can be squeezed to get milk.

The interview is in Portuguese, but is subtitled for the non-Brazilian. Click through for more information than you'll ever need.

http://www.people-with-pets-are-happier.com/hermaphrodite-goat/ | Image: TV Tambaú, Brasil

It's Memorial Day weekend and just about everyone will be out grilling some burgers. But have you ever thought about the science behind the food you're eating (too much of)? Scientific American and NBC Learn have teamed up to bring you answers to the burning questions behind your holiday grillathon.

As you sear the meat and toast the buns, have you ever wondered why grilling beats boiling? Or why ketchup and mustard tend to separate, but mayonnaise does not? Or why a pickle lasts so long? The videos include a series on the hamburger and its symbiotic accompaniments—all part of the celebration of the International Year of Chemistry 2011.

Click through to watch!

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Sure, it looks like a wayward ball of fluff. Maybe a even baby tribble. But that little guy in the pic above is the White Flannel Moth caterpillar, and the photographer who picked it up? Not happy. Those tiny little hairs are urticating setae, poisoned barbs that break off in the skin, causing pain and itchiness and general freaked-outness.

The Ark In Space has a whole collection of crazy-looking caterpillars (including one that looks like a toupee for Chewbacca, should he ever need one). Click through for the gallery!

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There was a time when rich and powerful men were expected to have a few flings on the side--or, if they were really classy, a long-term mistress with her own conveniently located house. Those days are gone, though, and I can't say I'm too upset about it. Now a sex scandal is a career-breaker for most of the high-profile philanderers who actually get caught. Over on The Daily Beast, they've been crunching numbers. What does an illicit affair cost a less-than-discreet public figure?

The price of fame is most striking in the aftermath of scandal. A damage control campaign—staffed by a legion of lawyers, press representatives and aides—is expensive, but so is losing a high-power job and any hope of professional redemption. In the last five years, sex scandals have ended the careers of at least two governors, six Congressional members and one CEO, while countless others remain in office despite allegations, admissions or lawsuits.

Find out who had the 10 Most Expensive Sex Scandals and what they cost; click through for the gallery.

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The folks over at ComicsAlliance see a lot of great art, especially of the superhero variety. They run across so many great artists and designers that a few months ago, they started a weekly column called "The Best Art Ever (This Week)". This week's installment is pretty great, with subject matter ranging from Superman (of course) to the Power Puff Girls in styles from hyper-realistic to black-and-white abstractions. Click through to see all the images!

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A billboard campaign aimed at promoting colon cancer awareness has been kicked to the curb in Washington state. The ads, which feature the slogan "What's up your butt?", were initially approved unanimously by the Tri-City health board in April. After residents complained that the ads were "in poor taste," (though the images were revealed before the initial vote), a reversal was proposed and unanimously approved this Wednesday. So no "butt billboards" will go up in Washington, which is a bit of a let-down.

Personally, I think it's a great campaign, but then I don't fall inside the colo-rectal cancer-screening demographic. Or maybe it's because I don't have something up... well, you know.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/05/26/1680838/board-officially-nixes-whats-up.html | Image: Yakima Health District